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Friday, September 20, 2013

oh crap....

After a lifetime of hand-copying ancient texts, an elderly monk became
abbot of his monastery. Realizing that for centuries his order had been
making copies of copies, he decided to examine some of the monastery's
original documents. Days later, the other monks found him in the cellar,
weeping over a crumbling manuscript and moaning, "It says 'celebrate,'
not 'celibate!'"

“In the councils of government we must guard against
the acquisition of power, whether sought or unsought,
by the military industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties and democratic processes.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower
from his final address to the nation
January 17, 1961

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
--Thomas Jefferson